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Green light for biomass and waste burning power plant at Tilbury
Energy secretary Ed Miliband has given the go-ahead for a 60-megawatt power plant earmarked for a site at Tilbury Docks in Essex which is planned to burn a mixture of biomasss and so-called solid recovered fuel.
Tilbury Green Power, a wholly owned subsidiary of Express Energy, is behind the scheme and expects the project to be generating power by 2012.
The plant will generate enough electricity to power the equivalent of some100, 000 homes and will be fuelled by a mix of wood chippings, waste wood and solid recovered fuel (derived from various sources).
Energy and climate change minister Lord Hunt said: "If we are to tackle climate change we must reduce the amount of waste going to landfill and also make use of renewable sources of fuel. This power station will achieve both these objectives by turning waste into energy and using biomass, which will also contribute to delivering the UK's renewable energy targets".
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